The legend Sir Christopher Lee has sadly died, aged 93.

I think. But I wouldn't visit his grave at night

RIP to a true British film legend..

Not to mention his later musical career, which was beyond interesting!

RIP.

R.I.P Scaramanga, also R.I.P Ron Moody & Dusty Rhodes

As a hungry young actor, he turned up at Hammer asking for a roll he could get his teeth into, the director misunderstood him and the rest is history.
Taxi!

I didn't know until fairly recently that he'd been in the equivalent of special forces during the war.

Apparently, during shooting of the scene in Lord of the Rings where he's stabbed, Peter Jackson was giving him direction on how to react and he said "Peter, I know what people sound like when they're stabbed".

He was also a first class drama queen who famously threw his rattle out of the pram when Peter Jackson cut one of his scenes from The Two Towers (which Lee subsequently claimed was "The Most Important Scene In The Entire Film".

Lee's background in "special forces" is well known. He's related to Ian Fleming who was one of Bill Stephenson's top spooks operating in the European theatre around the end of the war. Both were assigned to Operation Alsos, which involved the theft of German technology, intellectual property and the spiriting away of Nazi war criminals who should have stood trial but instead were given false papers and a new and prosperous life in the West.

Formerly Lee worked among the Partisans - which just goes to show that these old establishment types really aren't too fussed about whose bed they sleep in.

You're obviously not a social climber. Ask any member of the Tory noblesse what it's like.